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• Mapping Medical Modernity: Urban Space and Public Health in Tokyo, 1868–1920 with Susan L. Burns (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)

  October 28, 2026 · 57 min

  Mapping Medical Modernity: Urban Space and Public Health in Tokyo, 1868–1920 (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026) by Professor Susan L. Burns explores the history of medical modernization and public health in late nineteenth- and early…

• Once Upon a Time in South Central LA: John Singleton's Hood Trilogy with Mark D. Cunningham (UP of Mississippi, 2026)

  October 27, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  After the groundbreaking success of his debut film, Boyz N the Hood in 1991, filmmaker John Singleton (1968–2019) gained worldwide acclaim, earned the respect of major film industry figures, and became the topic of both scholarly and…

• Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City with Elijah Anderson (Norton, 2026)

  October 26, 2026 · 36 min

  Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules-based largely on an…

• On the Street of the Hidden Shops: One City Block, Two Thousand Years, and a Walk Through the Layered Lives of Rome with Elizabeth Rodini (U Chicago Press, 2026)

  October 24, 2026 · 44 min

  Elizabeth Rodini joins Jana Byars to talk about her new forthcoming book, On the Street of Hidden Shops: One City Block, Two Thousand Years, and a Walk Through the Layered Lives of Rome (U Chicago Press, 2026). Delve into Rome's lost…

• Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern Charity with David Conrad-Pérez (NYU Press, 2026)

  October 18, 2026 · 46 min

  In American history, few tragedies have been as consequential—and as enduringly misunderstood—as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Long remembered as a turning point in the struggle for labor protections, Fire in the Heart of…

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